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special list 345 1 RICHARD C.RAMER Special List 345 Fifteen Recent Acquisitions 2 RICHARDrichard c. C.RAMER ramer Old and Rare Books 225 east 70th street . suite 12f . new york, n.y. 10021-5217 Email [email protected] . Website www.livroraro.com Telephones (212) 737 0222 and 737 0223 Fax (212) 288 4169 August 26, 2019 Special List 345 Fifteen Recent Acquisitions Items marked with an asterisk (*) will be shipped from Lisbon. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED: All items are understood to be on approval, and may be returned within a reasonable time for any reason whatsoever. VISITORS BY APPOINTMENT special list 345 3 Special List 345 Fifteen Recent Acquisitions *1. AZEVEDO, Carlos A. Moreira. Terramoto doutrinal: a carta dogmática- política (1755) do P. João Moutinho contra a Inquisição. Lisbon: Temas e Debates / Círculo de Leitores, 2015. Large 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 274 pp., (1 blank l.), 3 full page illustrations in text, footnotes. ISBN: 978-989-644-383-2. $35.00 FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Carlos [Alberto] Moreira Azevedo received his doctorate in Ecclesistical History from the Gregorian University in Rome. He was formerly vice- reitor of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, and president of the Comissão Científica para a Documentação crítica de Fátima. As of 2007 he was a Professor in the Faculdade de Teologia of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, secretário da CEP, and Auxiliary Bishop of Lisbon from 2005 to 2011. He is presently titular Bishop of Belali. In November 2011 he was nominated by Pope Benedict XVI as a delegate to the Pontifical Council for Culture. He has had published more than 80 books and articles. *2. BARKER, NICOLAS. At First All Went Well… & Other Brief Lives. London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 2019. 8°, publisher's gray buckram. As new. 382 pp. $50.00 FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this remarkable collection of eighty obituaries, writ- ten over a period of fifty years. The subjects are widely varied but united by a common dedication to the printed word and all that goes with it. They include printers, publishers, librarians, booksellers and book collectors, starting with C.H. Wilkinson and Sir Sydney Roberts in 1966, and ending with Barney Rosenthal (2017) and Ian Doyle in 2018. Among other names chronicled in between are Albert Ehrman, Graham Pollard, A.N.L. Munby, John Carter, Jacob Zeitlin, Edward Maxwell Dring, Edwin Wolf, Ruth Mortimer, Franklin Gilliam, Don McKenzie, Nicolete Gray, Mary Hyde (Viscountess Eccles), Bernard Breslauer, Jacques Vellekoop, Milo, 4th Lord Parmoor, Charles Ryskamp, Anthony Hobson, Justin Howes, Joe Tanner and Robert S Pirie 4 richard c. ramer Item 2 special list 345 5 The Best Portuguese Poet of the Eighteenth Century *3. BOCAGE, [Manuel Maria l'Hedoux de Barbosa du]. Sonetos, sátiras, odes, epístolas, idílios, apólogos, cantatas e elegias. Daniel Pires, ed. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, and Setubal: Município Participada, 2018. Obras Completas de Bocage, volume I, tomos 1 & 2. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 729, (1) pp., (2 blank ll.), footnotes, indexes; 730 pp., (1 l., 2 blank ll.), footnotes, bibliography, indexes. ISBN: 978-972-27-2489-0. Volume I, tomos 1 & 2. $90.00 Daniel Pires has devoted his usual graceful erudition and serious hard work to the thorny problem of Bocage. His introductory study occupies pp. 5-23 of tomo I. Barbosa du Bocage (1765-1805), an accomplished Arcadian poet (known as Amano Sadino) with strong romantic tendencies, wrote a great deal of occasional verse. Bell thought he was capable of much greater things. The poet was an infantry soldier, but deserted at Damão and spent some time wandering through China, Macao and Goa before returning to Portugal. Tried and imprisoned on the basis of the anti-monarchical and anti-Catholic tone of his poems, when he was released he spent the rest of his life mostly doing translations, at which he was quite skilled. His work has always remained in print, though often in questionable editions. Always popular, Bocage has been gaining the esteem of critics. Bocage's Obra completa, was published by the now defunct Caixotim Edições, also edited by Pires, in 2004, with a second edition, 2008. Curiously, the Caixotim edition is not mentioned; we guess the present one contains some improvements, but have not been able to compare the two. The organization of the volumes of that edition appears to have been different. ❊ For Barbosa du Bocage, see Innocêncio VI, 45-53, 454; XVI, 260, 412; XVIII, 44. Bell, Portuguese Literature, pp. 277-8. Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed.), pp. 670-3, et passim. See also Álvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 65-6; Carolina Maia Gouvêa in Biblos, I, 690-4, and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, I, 578-81: "O maior poeta português do século XVIII …." (p. 578). *4. BRAGANÇA, Joaquim O., ed. Missal de Mateus. Manuscrito 1000 da Biblioteca Pública e Arquivo Distrital de Braga. Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1975. Série de Cultura Portuguesa. Large 8°, publisher's buckram with dust jacket (jacket very slightly soiled). Overall in very good condition. Internally fine to very fine. xlvii, 762 pp., (1 l. colophon), 4 ll. plates printed on 7 pp., title page in gold and black, extensively annotated, copious indexes. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: none. $75.00 This previously unpublished manuscript, of French origin (from a scriptorum at Limoges) dates from ca. 1130-1150. The editor provides an excellent introductory study and full critical apparatus. 6 richard c. ramer Item 6 special list 345 7 *5. CAPPELLI, Marcio. A teologia ficcional de José Saramago: aproximações entre romance e reflexão teológica. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2019. Coleção Estudos de Religião. Large 8°, original printed wrappers. As new. 301 pp., (1 l.), well annotated, ample bibliography. ISBN: 978-972-27-2754-9. $40.00 FIRST and ONLY EDITION. *6. CASTRO, E.[rnesto] M.[anuel Geraldes] de Melo e. Círculo afins (1963-1975). Lisbon: Assírio e Alvim, 1977. Cadernos Peninsulares, Literatura, 13. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. Some concrete poetry in text. One such page in color. In very good condition. 213 pp., occasional footnotes, bibliography. $85.00 FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this book of avant guard poems. On pp. [175]-207 is a theoretical essay by Maria dos Prazeres Gomes, "Uma leitura possivel de: 'Uma chama não chama a mesma chama-, de E.M. de Melo e Castro". E[rnesto] M[anuel Geraldes] de Melo e Castro (b. Covilhã, 1932), textile engineer, poet, artist, essayist and critic, was one of the leaders of the literary vanguard in Portugal during the second half of the twentieth century. Brazilian vanguard poetry, and much more. ❊ See Fernando J.B. Martinho in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 118; Ana Hatherly in Biblos, I, 1062–3; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, VI, 121–4; also Pamplona, Dicionário de pintores e escultores portugueses (2nd ed.), II, 74. *7. CÉSAR, Amândio. Novos parágrafos de literatura ultramarina. N.p. [printed in Braga by Editora Pax, for]: Sociedade de Expansão Cultural, 1971. Large 8°, original illustrated wrappers. Light toning. Overall in very good condition. 529 pp., (7 ll., 1 l. errata on bluish paper tipped in), indexes. ISBN: none. $35.00 FIRST and ONLY EDITION. "Belo e útil regalo …. É uma valiosa aquisição para a minha biblioteca de africanista."—Gerald M. Moser (as per publisher's blurb). ❊ Moser & Ferreira, A New Bibliography of the Lusophone Literatures of Africa 113. *8. LEITE, Rita Mendonça. Livro, texto e autoridade: diversificação religiosa com a Sociedade Bíblica em Portugal (1804-1940). Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2019. Coleção Estudos de Religião. Large 8°, original printed wrappers. As new. 763 pp., (3 ll.), extensive footnotes, tables and graphs in text, ample bibliography. ISBN: 978-972-27-2756-3. $75.00 FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8 richard c. ramer Item 7 special list 345 9 *9. LOPES, Graça Videira, ed. Cantigas de escárnio e maldizer dos trovadores e jograis galego-portugueses. Lisbon: Estampa, 2002. Obras Clássicas da Literatura Portuguesa, Literatura Medieval, 143. Large 8°, original illustrated wrappers. Slight printing defect in lower outer corner of p. 237, with loss of a few words of text. Otherwise as new. 651 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-33-1788-5. $35.00 New, critical edition, including extensive commentary, copious notes (pp. 551-602), a bibliography (pp. 603-14), and indexes. *10. MONTEIRO, Miguel Corrêa. Os Jesuítas e o ensino médio. Lisbon: Academia Portuguesa da História, 2011. Colecção de Estudos de História, 1. Large 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 205 pp., (1 blank l.), exteensive footnotes, bibliography. ISBN: 978-972-624-191-1. $30.00 FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Intellectual Opposition to the Estado Novo With Debates Between Second Wave Modernists and Neo-Realists *11. Mundo literário: semanário de critica e informação literária, científica e artistica. Numbers 1-53, a complete run. Jaime Cortesão Casimiro, ed., and Luís de Sousa Rebelo, publisher. Editorial board: Adolfo Casais Monteiro, Emil Andersen, and Jaime Cortesão Casimiro. 53 numbers in 1 volume. Lisbon: Editorial Confluência, Lda., 1946-1948. Folio (29 x 20.5 cm.), contemporary sailcloth (minor soiling), title stamped in red on front cover, and vertically in black on spine; dates stamped hori- zontally in black at foot of spine, red ribbon place marker. Some light foxing, very occasionally a bit more pronounced. Overall in very good condition. Old crimson robin's egg blue printed paper ticket (5 x 4 cm.) of Livraria Académica, Porto, tipped on to upper outer corner of front pastedown. 16 pp. per issue (numbers 3 and 4 have 20 pp.), illustrated. 53 numbers in 1 volume. $1,600.00 FIRST and ONLY EDITION, a COMPLETE RUN. In its choice of collaborators, this weekly magazine favored those not associated with the Estado Novo, the majority of whom had ties to MUD and were opposed to the Salazar government.